Book review: John Olsson and June Luchjenbroers, Forensic Linguistics

Book Review: Mathematical Linguistics by Kornai, András

For readers of traditional textbooks such as that of Partee, ter Meulen, and Wall (1990), the term 'mathematical linguistics' denotes a rather narrowly circumscribed set of issues including automata theory, set theory, and lambda calculus, with maybe a little formal language theory thrown in. Kornai's contribution is refreshingly different in that he treats, in this relatively compact volume, p...

Book Review | New Books June 2004

The answer to the ethical question “How should we live?” depends in part on what we know. Years ago, Aldo Leopold called for a “land ethic” as a consequence of understanding the interdependence of individuals in a larger ecological system. Here Jessica Pierce and Andrew Jameton examine new ways of thinking about bioethics, with a sense of urgency because of current ecologic realities. They ask ...

Forensic Linguistics and Forensic Phonetics: An Introduction

Communication is the essence of human civilization. Life would not have been possible without this cognitive faculty. However, with evolution in civilization instances of criminal activities are also on the increase. This paper introduces one such scientific discipline which has the potential to provide an authentic framework for such identifications. It is called Forensic Linguistics. Each ind...

Book Review: Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence

Book Review: Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace